> Information found online will also no longer be trustable

Most information you can access publicly, including Wikipedia, is a result of astroturfing fight. Most information online had not been trustable for double digit number of years now.

> we already experience misleading articles today

Again, had been happening for decades.

> footage of some incident somewhere may have been entirely fabricated by AI

Not like we did not already have doctored footage plaguing the public.

> Money will have to be wasted on unnecessary flights to see stuff or meet people in-person instead of video

Necessity to inspect the supply chain for snake oil has been a thing since at least EA (the Nasir one).

We may be dealing with the problem of spam, but the problems have already been there.

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pstuart 2 hours ago | parent [-]

All these are true, but just as it happened before the internet, it's accelerating even further. There are clear costs that cannot just be hand waved away.

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ottah an hour ago | parent [-]

I'm not sure we can say it's accelerating. The techniques that adversarial actors use has always been changing and when they shift tactics it can take a while for an adequate defense is adopted. We're still dealing with sql injection in the owasp top ten. What I think would indicate an acceleration is when the most security oriented organizations continuously fail to defend against new attacks. If we start hearing about JPMorgan and Google getting popped every month or two, we're in trouble.

	▲	ACS_Solver 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The acceleration is in the decrease of the cost to produce misinformation. Misinformation in pure text form has always been cheapest, but is even cheaper now that text generation is basically a solved problem. Photos have been more expensive, it used to take time and skill with a photo editor to produce a believable image of an event that never happened. The cost is now very low, it's mostly about prompting skills. Fake videos were considerably harder, especially coupled with speech. Just a few years ago I could assume any video I saw was either real or a time-consuming, deliberate fake. We've now entered a time where fake videos of famous people take actual effort to tell apart, and can be produced for a low cost - something accessible to an individual, not a big corporation. We can have an entirely fake video of Trump, or another world leader, giving a speech and it will look like the real thing, with the audiovisual "tells" of it being fake getting harder to notice every few months.